Chapter 143 The Last Piece of Land

According to the map, there is an underground river under the lake, which can directly cross the mountains in front and connect with the broken river on the other side of the mountains hundreds of kilometers away.

Shu Fu used the intercom again and asked everyone not to get out of the car.

She quickly identified the location and placed the S-class villa directly beside the lake, with the side of the villa's rear deck pressed tightly against the shore.

The coastline here is flatter than the previous landing place, and the surrounding area is more remote, so this time, they don't need to get out of the car at all and can get on the raft directly.

Shu Fu drove slowly across the wet and muddy ground along the lake shore and drove up from the side of the rear deck.

As soon as the car entered the deck, the protective cover immediately blocked out the heavy rain and thunderstorm.

Yao Ruoyun and her family got out of the car shortly after. Shu Fu quickly put his SUV back into the compact display cabinet, leaving the space on the rear deck for the other two cars.

A moment later, the other two vehicles were also put away, and all the friends took off their raincoats, backpacks and other equipment one by one. For them, returning to the raft was like returning home, and it was a home that was 100% safe no matter what extreme natural disasters happened outside.

After that, it would all depend on Shu Fu. If the underground river route was successful, they would be able to take a raft and travel all the way to Zhashui County. If this underground waterway was unavailable, it would mean they would have to land again and drive around the mountains ahead to another waterway that was closest to the Broken River.

They knew that Shu Fu must have looked at the map and knew how to take a detour and where the other waterway was.

However, the weather conditions are bad now, which will definitely hinder land travel, so they all hope that everything will go smoothly by water.

Shu Fu's raft had returned to its original shape, and was now drifting on the lake with their raft. They did not return to their houses, but gathered on the decks of their rafts, waiting quietly.

Shu Fu was standing by the railing in front of the second-floor terrace, holding the map panel. She had set the next destination a moment ago, but no new heading information popped up on the map panel.

She frowned slightly. Is it true that the dark river is impassable?

But that shouldn't be the case, because the basis for her inspection was not the electronic map, but her water map. On her water map, there were clearly waterways passing under these mountains.

In other words, it is an underground body of water as dense as a spider web.

Wait - Shu Fu suddenly caught a clue to the key point. She checked the water map again. The underground waters on it were the same as the last time she checked it. The light green color representing the waters was like a maze of passages, inlaid in the huge dark green, like ice cracks on glass, slender and crisscrossing.

She turned around and looked at the two rafts towed behind her raft. The rafts of Lu Zheng and Yao Ruoyun were wider than hers, and now they were arranged side by side horizontally behind her raft, which doubled the width required for the raft to pass!

She thought about it, then took out the blue "Subsidiary Raft Holiday Card" from the space.

The lucky draw wheel never gives out useless rewards.

More than ten minutes later, when Shu Fu's raft was moving forward again with the hotel raft, the plantation house raft where Yao Ruoyun was was left on the original waters of the lake. Although Yao Ruoyun on the deck had been prepared, he was still a little unhappy because his raft was left alone.

But this emotion only lasted for a moment. She was still able to distinguish priorities. Not everyone on Chen Fa's side had a raft, and even if someone had a raft, it would be too late to tow it in time. In addition, there might be an additional width restriction now, so the new raft definitely could not be towed.

This also means that between Lu Zheng and her raft, her raft can only use a prop from Shu Fu to temporarily stay in place.

Because only Lu Zheng's hotel can accept new guests in a short period of time, so that the protective shield can also protect them and take them away from Zhashui County.

Fortunately, Shu Fu's prop worked very well. Although her raft was temporarily untethered, the shared functions such as the protective shield still existed. She and her parents only needed to stay where they were and wait, doing what they were supposed to do, and it would not affect them in any way.

The most you can do is install a marine motor on the rear deck of the raft to control the drifting direction of the raft when necessary.

On the other side, after confirming that the drifting island house and Yao Ruoyun's raft could be successfully separated, Shu Fu took out the map panel again and set the broken river after crossing the mountains as the destination again.

This time she was a little nervous, because in addition to worrying about the width, she was also worried about the height. Although the hotel was a compressed space and the single-story exterior looked very low, the three floors combined were still five to six meters high, and there was also the height of a fence on the terrace.

The double-decker cabin on Yao Ruoyun's raft was relatively low, but the cabin could not accommodate anyone other than the owner of the trailer raft and his family, so she had no choice.

If the route still did not appear this time, she would have to give up the fastest and most convenient route, the underground river, and take another long way.

But fortunately, the goddess of luck favored her this time. The route information [273/2:43:03] soon appeared on the water map. She remembered that the direct distance from this lake to the broken river was about 200 kilometers.

Now the number 273 kilometers appeared. Obviously, this section of the waterway was more tortuous than she had imagined. Fortunately, the raft's drifting was fully automatic, otherwise if she had to find the exit by herself in the completely dark and unfamiliar underground waters, it would be no different from walking in a maze.

Shu Fu quickly backed the raft up and leaned it back against Yao Ruoyun's raft. The other friends in the inn also came out. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Shu Fu nodded at them.

"That's great!" Lu Ce cheered softly.

The next step is the allocation and placement of personnel.

There are so many people in the hotel, and they don't all have to go. After all, this is not a 100% safe trip. Now, as long as you are a guest of the hotel, you can temporarily enter the house for 24 hours after knocking on the door and getting permission from Yao Ruoyun, so those who stay don't have to stand on the raft stupidly.

In addition, we also have to consider that this trip may require Shu Fu to go to Zhashui County. At that time, the raft will be put away and everyone will have to move with her, so we have to bring people with stronger mobility.

As for Yao Ruoyun, it would be best to leave someone with high fighting power just in case.

Shu Fu first wanted Lu Ce to stay, but he refused immediately. He said that he would not lag behind even if the landing operation was delayed, and if he could pick up Chen Fa and the others, he and his brother could check in together and the check-in speed could be twice as fast.

"Let him follow. He has been learning physical training and fighting from Chen Fa and her grandmother in Chamu County. Now he is quite strong. Xu Jiechu can no longer beat him." It was Xu Tingfeng who spoke. He was a impartial person. For a mission like this, he had to consider the team's perspective.

Xu Jiechu: …

In the end, apart from Xu Jiechu, only Long Sheng remained.

Longsheng took the initiative to step forward. The reason he stayed was naturally because of his high fighting power. He had been to their house to cook before and had a good relationship with Hua Qiong and his wife. Moreover, his appearance was intimidating. Even if he did nothing, his aura was evident just by standing there.

In addition, because he is the one who can suppress Xu Jiechu, he doesn't even need to "strike hard", he can "spray" him to death with just his mouth.

Everyone moved very quickly and set off immediately after deciding on the people on both sides.

Shu Fu gave Yao Ruoyun a few instructions, then quickly returned to the Drifting Island house and took out the map panel again.

A moment later, two rafts, one small and one large, quickly headed towards the other side of the lake. On the other side of the lake were mountains. The two rafts quickly traveled a distance on the water, suddenly began to dive, and then quickly disappeared from Yao Ruoyun's sight.

"Wow, this is what it feels like to watch the raft dive underwater from this angle." Yao Ruoyun found it very novel. When her raft had not yet been towed, as long as Shu Fu opened the protective cover, she would not notice her raft at all, whether the raft was on the water or underwater.

But now, even if she stood on her own raft, she could clearly see all the tracks of the other two rafts.

A panel quickly popped up in front of Yao Ruoyun, which was a prompt for the visitor function. She turned around and clicked to confirm. The exquisite and beautiful glass-roofed two-story building soon allowed Long Sheng to pass.

Hua Qiong and Yao Guofan opened the door for Longsheng. While taking out slippers for him to change, they asked him if he was hungry and what he wanted to eat.

Because we have to land in the afternoon today, everyone just had bread and biscuits for lunch. It's almost three o'clock now, and everyone must be hungry. We can prepare dinner in advance.

Yao Ruoyun heard Longsheng say that he could make a seafood vermicelli hotpot in the evening. She still remembered Longsheng's cooking skills clearly. She was about to follow him back to the house. When she passed by Xu Jiechu, she saw that he was still looking in the direction where the other two rafts left, with a somewhat depressed expression on his face.

"I heard that you can't even beat Lu Ce?" How could Yao Ruoyun miss such a good opportunity? "No wonder, you always talk about marrying into the family, it turns out it's because you're not good enough——"

She emphasized and prolonged the last three words.

"Who, who is not capable?" Xu Jiechu's expression was like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

Yao Ruoyun shrugged, opened the door and went back to the house. She turned around and saw him still standing there, puzzled: "Are you planning to stay outside forever?"

"Can't we wait a while? The scenery outside is so beautiful!" Xu Jiechu stretched out his hand and pointed at the lake outside the protective cover where it was raining heavily. Coincidentally, at this moment, a loud thunder broke through the sky and exploded directly on the nearby waters. The sound was deafening, and he screamed in surprise.

Inside the house, Yao Ruoyun waved at him, said "OK", and then closed the door.

Xu Jiechu: …

**

A drifting speed of 100 is already very fast in an ordinary river channel, let alone in such pitch-black waters where you can't see your hand in front of you.

The entrance to the underground waters is just below the lake. The entrance is on the mountain wall. It is not a very obvious entrance with narrow sides. No wonder the route did not even show up when the raft was towing two at the beginning.

Shu Fu was originally sitting under the eaves, wanting to witness this magical journey to the underground river with his own eyes.

But as the raft went deeper into the underwater cave, it became darker and darker, and she felt a strong sense of oppression and suffocation. She felt like she would crash into the surrounding rock walls at any time. Gradually, she could no longer sit under the eaves, so she got up and went back into the house, closed the door, and stood at the door, only daring to look out through the glass.

The waterway is winding and narrow. This is a natural cave inside the mountain. In the past, before it started to rain, the altitude nearby was high, the water level in the cave was low, and the cave entrance on the mountain might have been exposed to the outside. Perhaps someone had sailed a small boat at that time and explored and toured the water in the front part of the cave.

But now, the water level of the lake has risen, and the water level in the cave has continued to rise, directly flooding the top of the rock wall, causing many places inside to become waterways with no air at all.

Occasionally, the drifting island house that had been submerged in the water would quickly float up. Shu Fu looked out from the floor-to-ceiling window and could vaguely see a rock wall flashing with a faint light not far to the right of the raft. It might be a natural mineral on the rock wall, or some kind of "glowing" moss growing on the rock wall.

The raft was moving so fast that it almost flew by in such a short distance. Before she could see clearly, the drifting island house had already passed through the waterway.

Of course, the surroundings are not entirely filled with narrow waterways and caves. About a distance in the middle, the raft comes to an empty underground lake area. The lake is trapezoidal in shape, with a narrow entrance that becomes wider as it goes forward. In the end, the rock walls on both sides are no longer visible.

The drifting island house was drifting rapidly on the water. Shu Fu looked out through the floor-to-ceiling window and saw that the top of the cave was high and wide, with countless stars faintly twinkling on the top.

Soon, as the raft created waves on the water, the twinkling "stars" on the top of the rock began to move, like a moving picture with faint light, heading towards the raft on the water until they were blocked by an invisible protective shield.

Because they were so close, Shu Fu realized that those were not stars at all. They were clearly insect creatures living in underground caves. The flickering lights were the fluorescent lights emitted when they flapped their wings.

Maybe it was because the insect creatures were close to the water, but soon the water around the raft began to churn. She saw a dark shadow passing over the water, as if it opened its mouth and swallowed a group of fluorescent flying insects.

Is that a fish?

The creatures in the water moved too fast and the light around was dim, so she couldn't see clearly.

At the end of the underground lake, there is also a rock wall. The waterway turns back underwater here and the raft begins to dive again. The subsequent section of the waterway is particularly narrow, and the two rafts are like being inside a hollow stone pillar.

The light inside was even darker, so dark that you could hardly see your hand in front of you. Even if Shu Fu turned off all the lights in the house, he could not see the rock wall outside clearly.

She took out the map panel, checked the location of the river again, and tried to set the terminal on the river bank next to Zhashui County. She wanted to try whether she could reach Zhashui County directly by raft to confirm whether she had to travel by land again after leaving the underground river area.

As a result, the route was updated quickly, adding another 3 hours to the original countdown.

Shu Fu felt relieved. It seemed that they wouldn't have to go ashore again. They could reach Zhashui County smoothly!

The water conditions in the underground river were complicated, and sometimes when the raft passed through a particularly narrow or winding waterway, it would automatically slow down, so she didn't plan to use the acceleration card in the underground river. She planned to use the acceleration card after leaving the underground river.

At around 8:30 in the evening, the raft quietly docked.

Shu Fu used the 15-minute acceleration card again in the last wider river area, gaining another 30 minutes, and arrived in Zhashui County just at nightfall.

Half an hour ago, she had sent a message to Zheng Feifei's mobile phone, telling her that they would dock safely at the agreed waters in thirty minutes.

She wasn't quite sure how to use her tool, so she didn't know if the other party would receive the message she sent. She planned to wait until nine o'clock and then send a message to the other party. If there was no reply, she would call them.

At 8:45, Shu Fu received a call from Zheng Feifei. The use of props was indeed limited, especially when receiving messages. She had to take the initiative to check all the messages she had received before.

"It's okay, I'm already here, just tell me before you leave."

"Okay!" Zheng Feifei responded and repeated the situation of the yellow smoke, telling her not to breathe the air directly. Based on the current observation results, masks with good filtering effects can temporarily resist it.

"I understand. You must be careful too. Don't worry. I will be waiting here for you." Before Shu Fu was about to hang up the phone, Zheng Feifei stopped her.

"Shu Fu——"

"What?"

Zheng Feifei was a little speechless for a moment, she didn't know how to describe her feelings at this moment. Such a long distance, such a long road, to arrive within one day, this was originally almost an impossible task.

But she really came, whether for herself or for them - she was very happy and touched.

In the end, all the words came down to two words: "Thank you, Shu Fu."

**

At 9:50 in the evening, Zheng Feifei sent a message to Shu Fu.

The reply came back almost immediately, asking them to call her when they arrived and telling them that they didn't need to get out of the car when they arrived, they could drive directly onto the raft deck.

Zheng Feifei put away her phone and looked back. Inside the house, everyone was traveling light and had put all their belongings into their backpack compartments.

When they first met yesterday, they were still hiding something because of some concerns. On Chen Fa's team, Wu Shaoshan was not a superpower, and Zhang Tian's backpack compartment was also different from Chen Fa's, so some things had not been explained in detail.

As for Zheng Feifei and the other party, it was their first meeting, so how could they talk to such an in-depth level all of a sudden?

But now, they have to work together to escape from this town, they need more trust, so some things have to be made clear in advance.

Everyone knew something about the superpowers, the only person who seemed more surprised was Wu Shaoshan, but she was receptive and quickly calmed down.

In the original plan of the six of them, completing the twelve kilometers of land route was only the beginning of escaping from the town, but it was still a long way from truly being out of danger.

They had also thought of the problems that Shu Fu pointed out when they were making their plans, but compared to those, being trapped in this small town was obviously more dangerous. No matter where those people came from and what plans they had behind them, based on the current situation, they wanted to assimilate the entire town and turn everyone into ichthyosis patients.

And now, Shu Fu was already waiting at the river bank twelve kilometers away. Their escape plan only needed to complete the beginning part, and the difficulty was greatly reduced.

At present, there are three difficulties in escaping the town. First, the ichthyosis patients wander around the streets of the town both during the day and at night, especially after dark, their state will become particularly aggressive. However, they like water, and under normal circumstances they will not enter the building, but will only wander in the rain outside.

Second: Yellow smoke that can quickly infect people with ichthyosis.

This yellow smoke is randomly released, not every street and every corner. It is released more during the day, but also at night, and because visibility is reduced at night, you need to be more careful to check your surroundings in order to discover it in advance.

Their response policy is to wear waterproof clothing all over their body. Everyone wears a mask, goggles and gloves, as well as waterproof outerwear and waterproof hats, so as not to let even a strand of hair be exposed.

According to those who managed to escape alive yesterday, masks are definitely useful in the short term. As long as they can get on the car smoothly, the intact car body can also withstand some damage.

Therefore, even though everyone was sweating profusely and feeling extremely hot due to their tight clothing, no one thought of loosening their clothes to give themselves a breath.

Chen Yuezhen was driving the car, and Zheng Feifei was sitting on the passenger seat. She was the navigator. Firstly, her mobile phone could connect to the Internet for a short time. If they encountered dark yellow smoke blocking the way and needed to change lanes, she was the only one who could find and adjust the route in the first time. Secondly, she knew the street conditions in Zhashui County much better than the others, especially the road conditions from here to the river bank.

As for Chen Fa, she was responsible for clearing out possible snipers, thugs, and ichthyosis who might find them coming after them.

Those unscrupulous and inhumane thugs are the third difficulty in escaping the town.

In this regard, Chen Fa’s response policy can be summed up in one word: kill.

Finally, from the short-term rental house where they were currently staying, they arrived at the alley where the car was parked. If they went through the main gate of the building, they not only had to go around the entire building, but also had to go through the street in front.

This retreat route was too dangerous as it was easy to run into ichthyosis patients wandering outside. There were too many of them and except for Chen Fa and Chen Yuezhen, it would be impossible for the others to escape immediately if they faced an ichthyosis patient head-on. The sound of the fight would easily attract the attention of other ordinary people hiding in the building.

In such a difficult situation, people's minds are unpredictable. If someone sees them escaping, they may shout for help and ask them to take them with them. Any noise may easily attract thugs roaming the streets of the entire town.

To sum up, their plan was not to go through the main door, but to go to the stairwell, hang a ladder from the north window, and climb out to reach the alley behind the building directly.

The only problem with this plan is that they currently don't know the condition of their car. Although it was parked in a relatively hidden place, it has been a day and a night, and no one can guarantee whether the windows are intact or whether the car can still be driven.

If there is a problem with the car, they have to find a car that can start in a short time.

However, we can only take one step at a time and adapt to the circumstances.

"Are you ready?" Chen Yuezhen stood behind the door that was emptied of cabinets and other heavy objects. After checking the situation in the corridor through the peephole, he whispered to the person behind him.

The four people in the middle responded in a low voice. At the end of the team, Chen Fa opened the scope of his gun and nodded to Chen Yuezhen.

Chen Yuezhen reached out and unlocked the door: "Let's go."